Bookkeeping & Inventory Expert

Job Description

Job Description

Grant Laughter Jewelry – Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence

Are you a detail-driven book keeping professional with strong accounting, organizational, and operational skills seeking a stable, long-term role in a respected, multi-generational business? Grant Laughter Jewelry is seeking an Bookkeeping & Inventory Expert to support the financial, inventory, and operational backbone of our organization.

This role is critical to keeping our business running smoothly and accurately across multiple business entities.

Why Join Us?

At Grant Laughter Jewelry, we provide a professional, structured environment where capable individuals are trusted with real responsibility. With over 60 years serving our community, we offer:

• Stable Work-Life Balance
• Tuesday–Saturday schedule with Sundays and Mondays off.
• Competitive Compensation

Pay reflective of experience, reliability, and accountability.

• Comprehensive Benefits Package

PTO, paid vacations, matched 401(k), profit sharing, bonuses, paid parental leave, AFLAC insurance, paid training, and jewelry purchases at cost, company-provided work phone, laptop, and role-specific tools. Well-defined systems, strong vendor relationships, and a large, active inventory base.

Your Role

As the Bookkeeping & Inventory Expert , you will manage day-to-day precision accounting functions and operational workflows across two corporations. You will work closely with ownership, vendors, and internal staff to ensure accuracy, organization, and continuity.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Managing daily bookkeeping functions in QuickBooks for multiple entities
• Creating and processing vendor bills, checks, and accounts payable
• Creating and managing invoices and applying payments
• Receiving inventory shipments and verifying contents
• Photographing and recording inventory items (photo/video)
• Opening, sorting, and documenting incoming packages and mail
• Maintaining organized digital and physical records
• Supporting month-end and year-end accounting procedures
• Assisting with tax preparation support and documentation
• Coordinating with external professionals (CPA, payroll, vendors)
• Maintaining confidentiality and financial accuracy at all times
• Analyze financial performance, cash flow, expenses, sales trends, and inventory movement.
• Develop projections and forecasts using historical financial and operational data.
• Identify discrepancies, inefficiencies, emerging trends, and opportunities for improvement before they become problems.
• Prepare concise, meaningful management reports highlighting key performance indicators, changes, concerns, and recommended actions.
• Leverage QuickBooks, Microsoft Excel, and our inventory management systems to extract, organize, and analyze business data.
• Monitor inventory performance, including aging inventory, turnover, purchasing trends, and capital allocation.
• Proactively communicate findings and recommendations to ownership and management without waiting to be asked.
• Maintain accuracy and accountability across accounting, purchasing, inventory, and other operational processes.

This role is well-suited to a highly organized, self-directed professional who values structure, accountability, precision, and excellent problem solving skills with a wide range of applications.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a reliable operations professional who understands the importance of accuracy, consistency, and documentation in a high-value retail environment who does not want their hands held to get the job done.

Required Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting fundamentals
• Experience with accounts payable, invoicing, and reconciliation
• Experience using QuickBooks Online
• Experience using Microsoft Excel
• Preparing concise, meaningful management reports highlighting key performance indicators, changes, concerns, and recommended actions.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills
• Excellent problem solving, puzzle, and tracking skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to manage multiple workflows simultaneously
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Trustworthiness and discretion with financial information

Preferred Experience:

• Experience supporting multiple business entities
• Familiarity with inventory-based retail operations
• Proficiency with digital tools (Gsuite, Scanners, Cameras, scales, calipers)
• Prior experience in jewelry, luxury retail, or asset-based businesses (preferred, not required)

About Grant Laughter Jewelry

Grant Laughter Jewelry has proudly served Asheville for over five decades as a trusted, family-owned jeweler. We specialize in fine diamond and gemstone jewelry, custom design, jewelry repair, and estate jewelry. Our reputation is built on integrity, expertise, and long-term client relationships.

Our Culture

Grant Laughter Jewelry endeavors, through the teachings of Christ, to operate with transparency in our procedures, honesty in our pricing, fairness in our interactions, and clarity in our communication.

Our Purpose: Designing Experiences into fine jewelry.
Core Values: Transparency, Honesty, Fairness, Clarity.
Vision: The jewelry store in Asheville with a "good name" for fine jewelry.

How we strive to treat people.

Customers - To clearly communicating in a fair, honest and transparent way.
Vendors - To treat our partners fairly and truthfully above all else.
Employees - To pay a living wage in an environment that encourages self-expression.
Ministry – To treat everyone fairly and truly care for those we interact with.
Business – To make a difference in our community by being genuine caring individuals.

We believe in clear expectations, professional accountability, and long-term stability. This is a non-commissioned position , with annual profit sharing that rewards accuracy, consistency, and contribution to the overall success of the business.

Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• AFLAC Insurance
• Paid time off
• Employee discount

Shift:

• Tuesday Through Saturday, Closed every Sunday and Monday
• 8-hour Day shift 9:30 am to 6:00pm

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) 4% Match
• 401(k) matching
• Employee discount
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Experience:

• Quickbooks Online: 3 years (Required)
• Shipping / Receiving packages: 1 year (Preferred)
• Bookkeeping: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Grant Laughter Jewelry is Asheville's family jeweler for over 53 years. We speciailize in classic fine diamond and gemstone jewelry, custom jewelry design, jewelry repairs and jewelry remodelling. Visit us in store, or online to experience the difference a trusted, multi-generational, local family owned, and industry accredited GIA, IJO, RJO, JBT jeweler can do for you. - Grant Laughter

Company Description

Grant Laughter Jewelry is Asheville's family jeweler for over 53 years. We speciailize in classic fine diamond and gemstone jewelry, custom jewelry design, jewelry repairs and jewelry remodelling. Visit us in store, or online to experience the difference a trusted, multi-generational, local family owned, and industry accredited GIA, IJO, RJO, JBT jeweler can do for you. - Grant Laughter